Cabinet for sewing-machines.



No. 739,765. PATENTABD SEPT. 22, 1903.

S. H. WHEELER.

GABINET FOB SEWING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7, 1903.

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UNITED STA ?atented September 22, 1903.

PATENT OFFIC SAMUEL H. IVI-IEELER, OF FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGrNOR TO WHEELER & WILSON MANUFACTURING"COMPANY, OF BRIDGE- PORT, CONNECTICUT,A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CABINET FOR SEWING-VMACHSNES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,765, dated September 22, 1903. Application filed May 7, 1903. Serial No. 156,072. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. WHEELER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fairfield, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cabinets for Sewing-- Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In those sewing-machine cabinets in which are employed a hinged leaf and a hinged door the leaf when turned back or away from the top of the cabinet occupies a horizontal position substantially in the plane of the top of the cabinet and slightly above the upper edge of the door, and there is a tendency of the hinged leaf to sag downwardly and to rest upon the door, to the detriment of the latter.

The object of the present invention is to provide a support for the leaf and for the door when the two are opened.

lhe invention consists of a supporting device carried by the door and capable of be ing projected into contact with the under side of the leaf and with the door, so as to perform the double function of supporting the leaf and of holding the door in open position.

In the accompanying drawings,illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is an elevation of a sewing-machine cabinet with the door open and the hinged leaf extended and the supporting device in position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cabinet closed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of portion of-the door, with the supporting device in closed position in full lines and in open position in dotted lines.

The cabinet may be of any approved construction, although it is here shown as having its door comprising a front panel 1, rigidly connected with a side panel 2,which is hinged at 3 to a fixed portion 4 of the left-hand side of the cabinet.

5 is the hinged leaf.

Thedooris provided with a bar 6, slidable at its lower end in a bracket 7 and connected by a pivot or' pin 8 with the bar 9, which is pivoted at 10 to the door.

11 is a stop-pin fixed in the door, so as to restrain the movement of the bar 9.

When the door is opened and the leaf 5 is turned over, as shown in Fig. l and by dotted lines in Fig. 3, the bar 6 slips down or is moved down, so as to rest upon the floor, and

in so doing the bar 9 is moved upwardly benected bar 9 into the f ull-line position, (shown in Fig. 3,) or, in other words, to withdraw both of its ends within the top and bottom lines of the door.

7 Thus it will be seen that the bars 6 and 9 constitute, in effect, a leaf-support and a doorstop.

The parts herein shown and not specifically described may be such as are usual in sewing-machine cabinets.

What I claim is- 1. A sewing machine cabinet, having a hinged leaf and a hinged door arranged to open out at right angles to and one above another, combined with a leaf and door support, comprising pivotally-connected bars movably mounted'upon the door and adapted to be adjusted to come into contact with the leaf and the floor, and also to be withdrawn within the top and bottom lines of the door.

2. In a sewing-machine cabinet, aleaf and a door hinged at right angles so as to open out toward each other, combined with a bar slidably mounted upon the door, a bar pivoted to said door and pivotallyconnected with the first named bar, and a stop for the pivoted bar.

3. In a sewing-machine cabinet, a horizontally-hinged leaf and a vertically-hinged door beneath said leaf, and movably-connected bars adjustable upon said door and constituting a combined leaf-support and door-stop.

4. In a sewing-machine-cabinet, an extension-leaf hinged thereto to swing in a verti; I atter is in extended position, a bar slidably cal plane, and a door hinged to swing in a mounted upon the door, a bar pivoted to said horizontal plane beneath the leaf when the door and pivotally connected to said firsti5 latter is in extended position, a bar mounted named bar, said bars being adapted to form 5 upon, the door, a bar pivoted to said doorand a support for both the door and the leaf.

connected to said first-named bar, said bars In testimony whereof I have hereunto set being adapted to form a support for both the my hand this 6th day of May, A. D. 1903. door and the leaf. 5. In a sewing-machine cabinet, an extenzo sion-leaf hinged thereto to swing in a verti- Witnesses:

cal plane, and a door hinged to swing in a F. W. OSTROM, horizontal plane beneath the leaf when the A. DONIHEE.

SAMUEL H. WHEELER. 

